Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-09-02
GOLD IN INDIA.
Region Where Mining May be Carried on TO
Great Advantage

The recezt dispatch from Simla, an
nouncing the discovery of itch veins OF
gold bearing quartz in the Nulu Valley,
says the New York Tribune, is news of
importance. Such discovery will allure
to Hindoostan an English mining ele-
ment that may easily be induced to re-
main there permanently. There is no
other part of the great peninsula where
the climate is SO suitable to English tenn
peraments. Here too it Is possible for
English muscles to be exe-ted with the
same force as at home. 1t is in the I'M
| mediate neighborhood of the great SAM
tsrium of the English official world. In
deed, Simla is more that, for it is the rec
ognized summer capital of the governor
general, and is also the capital of the
governor of the Northwest Provinces.
At Umballa, alse, not far of, is the great
est cavalry station of the peninsula.
There will be no difficulty in equipping
a narrow-gauge mountain road to the
mining centre wherever that may ultim-
a.s'y be. This peculiarly fortunate To-
cation makes the success of mining oper-
aulons there less doubtful than Is usual
in such cases, for it materially lessons
that important item of preliminary eI-
penses, and it will enable such mpanies
as may be formed to obtain workmen al
moderate figures. With such a redundant
population as England possesses there
| will be no difficulty in inducing miners
| to go to Simla, which is notoriously the
paradise of the Englishman in India.
The regions of the foothills of the
| Central Himalaya mountain group en-
| joys temperate climate, which is posi-
| lively chilly during the prevalence of the
4 1nv,tH unetr Is sha I'M
I season of the tropics. This chilliDess Is
an exquisite delight to the whitenan who
| has been boiled in his own pers piration
in Calcutta or Bombay, aud it is univer
| sally conceded that this which some ira
| velers have considered a drawback is in
! reality the chief virtue of the locality be
cause it supplies the necessary bracing
| to constitution that has lost its tone.
! The English who resided there every year
| have mado experiments with English
fruits, flowers and vegetables, which
| grow to perfection. They have intro
| duced English beeves, and sheep from
the Cape of Good Hope, and have made
| the place as ESglish as possible, so that
| the English workman who go out for the
| mining com panies that will be formed
| will have all those creature comforts in
| which they reyel, with the advantages OF
| a delightful climate. Under these cir
cumstances it is hardly possible that
| mining town should not arise whers
| English families will reside permanently
without any wish to return to England.
! This something which the English gov
| erpment has long sought to compass, but
has never yet succeeded. Englishmen in
! India in every capacity have always been
there like the soldiers of a garrison
! they do not settle there. Tue climate is
| too detestable to permit it. But now
| that the delicious foothills of the Himala
| vas, or rather the lateral spurs of the
| toothills-the great ramparts that holo
| up the monstr0us Inasses-are known to
! be auriforous, the problem is solved
| Up to the date of the present discovery,
! it was an item of popular belief current
! everywhere in India that the Himalayas
| held no mineral treasures. In eastern
| Thibet, indeed, it was known that the in
! habitants did some gold washing and OBJ
| tanned trifing results, but the dlsadvan
| tages of that locality was so tremendous
| that investigators declined even to make
| a thorough search, end mining interests
| there were never dreamed of by the most
| speculative capitalists. In that long
| duel which England has been lighting
with Russia, and in which the recent re-
verses of the Emir of Afganistan count
1 ed strong point for the Muscoyite,
| honors may have been made easy by this
find, and the British must feel jubilant.